Language, Linguistics, Comparisons Speaking: Students will be able to speak at the Advanced Low level i.e. narrate and describe in the present, past and future, speak in paragraphs, successfully manage a survival situation with a complication and are understood by listeners who may not be used to dealing with foreigners.

Listening: Students will be able to demonstrate listening comprehension at the Advanced Low level i.e. comprehend conversations about routine social conventions and limited school requirements; comprehend descriptions and narrations about current, past and future events; be able to understand face to face speech delivered at a normal rate with some repetition and rewording by a native speaker not used to dealing with foreigners.

Writing: Students will be able to write at the Advanced Low level i.e. write routine social correspondence, write about familiar topics by means of narrations, descriptions, and summaries of a factual nature in major time frames; join sentences in texts of several paragraphs in length; demonstrate good control of frequently used syntactic structures; be understood by native speakers not used to the writing of non-natives.

Command of language: WritingCritical ThinkingInformation Literacy: Use of computer applications and emerging technologiesInformation Literacy: Use of libraries

Students will be able to read at the Advanced Low level i.e. comprehend simple authentic printed material or edited material within a familiar context, uncomplicated but authentic prose on familiar subjects containing description and narration such as news items, standard business letters, fiction and culture. Students will be able to move beyond literal comprehension, analyze authors' perspectives and / or cultural perspectives; offer personal interpretation of a text.

Students will be able to maintain and enhance their proficiency by interacting in L2 outside the classroom, reading and using technology to access
L2 communities.

Command of language: ListeningCommand of language: ReadingCommand of language: SpeakingCommand of language: WritingCritical ThinkingInformation Literacy: Use of computer applications and emerging technologiesInformation Literacy: Use of librariesInterpersonal Communication